IJCAI-15 Awards

The IJCAI-15 Award for Research Excellence, the IJCAI John McCarthy Award, and the Computers and Thought Award are awarded by the IJCAI Board of Trustees, upon recommendation by the IJCAI-15 Awards Selection Committee, which consists of:
Tom Dietterich, Oregon State University (USA) Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California, ISI (USA) (Chair) Hector Levesque, University of Toronto (CANADA) Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin (USA), and Sebastian Thrun, Udacity, Google and Stanford University (USA).

The IJCAI Awards Selection Committee receives advice from members of the IJCAI-15 Awards Review Committee, who comment on the accuracy of the nomination material and provide additional information about the nominees. The IJCAI-15 Awards Review Committee is the union of the former Trustees of IJCAI, the IJCAI-15 Advisory Committee, the Program Chairs of the last three IJCAI conferences, and the past recipients of the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence and the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award, with nominees excluded.

IJCAI-15 Award for Research Excellence

The Research Excellence award is given to a scientist who has carried out a program of research of consistently high quality throughout an entire career yielding several substantial results.
Past recipients of this honor are the most illustrious group of scientists from the field of Artificial Intelligence. They are: John McCarthy (1985), Allen Newell (1989), Marvin Minsky (1991), Raymond Reiter (1993), Herbert Simon (1995), Aravind Joshi (1997), Judea Pearl (1999), Donald Michie (2001), Nils Nilsson (2003), Geoffrey E. Hinton (2005), Alan Bundy (2007), Victor Lesser (2009, Robert Anthony Kowalski (2011), and Hector Levesque (2013).

IJCAI-15 John McCarthy Award

The IJCAI John McCarthy Award is intended to recognize established mid-career researchers, typically between fifteen to twenty-five years after obtaining their PhD, that have built up a major track record of research excellence in artificial intelligence. Nominees of the award will have made significant contributions to the research agenda in their area and will have a first-rate profile of influential research results.
The award is named for John McCarthy (1927-2011), who is widely
recognized as one of the founders of the field of artificial
intelligence. As well as giving the discipline its name, McCarthy
made fundamental contributions of lasting
importance to computer science in general and artificial intelligence
in particular, including time-sharing operating systems, the LISP
programming languages, knowledge representation, common-sense
reasoning, and the logicist paradigm in artificial intelligence.
The award was established with the full support and encouragement of the McCarthy family.